Draw the Sword

A Fighting 300 Regiment

Location: Emmitsburg Road

Order of Battle: 3d Corps, 2d Division, 1st Brigade

Number Engaged: 344; 17 killed, 124 wounded, 12 missing

Commander: Col. Robert McAllister (1813-1891)

Raised: Essex, Hudson, Mercer, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, and Union counties.

Monument Specifications: The monument marks the position held by the 11th New Jersey on July 2, 1863. A huge book draped with a flag on which a soldier’s cap rests. The inscriptions are incised on the front and back cover of the book.

Dedication Date: June 20, 1888.

Sculptor/Artist/Company: Smith Granite Company, fabricator.

Main Inscription: THIS STONE/MARKS THE SPOT/REACHED BY THE/RIGHT OF THE REGIMENT/THE LEFT EXTENDING/TOWARDS THE SOUTH-EAST/THE POSITION WAS HELD/UNDER A SEVERE FIRE/WHICH KILLED OR DISABLED/NEARLY THREE FIFTHS OF THE/REGIMENT INCLUDING EVERY/OFFICER PRESENT ABOVE/THE RANK OF LIEUTENANT/NUMBER ENGAGED 275/KILLED 31, WOUNDED 109/MISSING 12, TOTAL 152/OF THE MISSING/SIX ARE SUPPOSED/TO HAVE BEEN KILLED

Other Monuments and Memorials: None.

Supplemental Materials: After Action Report of Col. Robert McAllister (will open a pop up window).

Regimental History ~ Dyer’s Compendium of the War of the Rebellion:

Organized at Camp Olden, Trenton, N. J., and mustered in August 15, 1862. Left State for Washington, D.C., August 25, 1862. Attached to Whipple’s Command, Defenses of Washington, D.C., to November, 1862. 1st Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Army Corps, Army of the Potomac, to March, 1864. 1st Brigade, 4th Division, 2nd Army Corps, to May, 1864. 3rd Brigade, 3rd Division, 2nd Army Corps, to July, 1865.

SERVICE.–Duty in the Defenses of Washington, D, C., until November 16, 1862. March to Falmouth, Va., November 16-27. Duty near Falmouth, Va., November 28-December 11. Battle of Fredericksburg, Va., December 12-15. At Falmouth, Va., until April 27, 1863. “Mud March” January 20-24. Chancellorsville Campaign April 27-May 6. Battle of Chancellorsville May 1-5. Gettysburg (Pa.) Campaign June 11-July 24. Battle of Gettysburg July 1-3. Pursuit of Lee July 5-24. Wapping Heights, Va., July 23. Duty near Warrenton until October. Bristoe Campaign October 9-22. McLean’s Ford October 15. Advance to line of the Rappahannock November 7-8. Kelly’s Ford November 7. Mine Run Campaign November 26-December 2. Payne’s Farm November 27. Duty near Brandy Station to May, 1864. Demonstration on the Rapidan February 6-7. Campaign from the Rapidan to the James May 3-June 15, Battles of the Wilderness May 5-7; Spotsylvania May 8-12; Spotsylvania Court House May 12-21. Assault on the Salient, “Bloody Angle,” May 12. Harris Farm, Fredericksburg Road, May 19. North Anna River May 23-26. Ox Ford May 23-24. On line of the Pamunkey May 26-28. Totopotomoy May 28-31. Cold Harbor June 1-12. Before Petersburg June 16-18. Siege of Petersburg June 16, 1864, to April 2, 1865. Jerusalem Plank Road June 22-23, 1864. Demonstration north of the James July 27-29. Deep Bottom July 27-28. Demonstration north of the James August 13-20. Strawberry Plains, Deep Bottom, August 14-18. Ream’s Station August 25. Poplar Springs Church September 29-October 2. Yellow House October 2-5. Boydton Plank Road, Hatcher’s Run, October 27-28. Forts Hascall and Morton November 5. Expedition to Weldon Railroad December 7-12. Dabney’s Mills, Hatcher’s Run, February 5-7. 1865. Watkins House March 25. Appomattox Campaign March 28-April 9. Boydton and White Oak Roads March 30-31. Crow’s House March 31. Fall of Petersburg April 2, Pursuit of Lee April 3-9. Sailor’s Creek April 6. High Bridge, Farmville, April 7. Appomattox Court House April 9. Surrender of Lee and his army. March to Washington, D.C., May 2-12. Grand Review May 23. Mustered out near Washington, D.C., June 6, 1865. Veterans and recruits transferred to 12th New Jersey Infantry. Regiment lost during service 11 Officers and 131 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 107 Enlisted men by disease. Total 249.